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BOOKS
Challem, Jack. Feed Your Genes Right: Eat to Turn off Disease-Causing Genes and Slow Down Aging. 2005. A straightforward guide to healing modern illnesses - sometimes even before they strike. Complex health information is presented in simple terms, with a mix of research, individual stories and personal touches.
Gazzaniga, Michael. The Ethical Brain. 2005. Offers a radical re-evaluation of the nature of moral belief and the possibility of manipulating the part of the brain that creates beliefs. Discusses how scientific research is building a brain-based account of moral reasoning.
Guarente, Leonard. Ageless Quest: One Scientist’s Search for Genes that Prolong Youth. 2003. A personal account of the research of one of the pioneers in the aging field.
Miller, Philip Lee and the Life Extension Foundation. The Life Extension Revolution: the New Science of Growing Older Without Aging. 2005 This groundbreaking book translates cutting-edge anti-aging advances into a practical, easy-to-use program that will maximize your chances of living not only a long life – but a healthy, vibrant one.
Naam, Ramez. More Than Human: Embracing the Promise of Biological Enhancements. 2005. Explore the impact of the most radical achievements being made in labs worldwide, including gene therapy, genetic engineering, stem cell research, life extension, brain-computer interfaces, and cloning.
Robbins, John. Healthy at 100: the Scientifically Proven Secrets of the World’s Healthiest and Longest Lived Peoples. 2006. Selected data from four diverse cultures renowned for the numbers of centenarians is examined. Long lives are attributed to food - organic and small portions; and lifestyle - lots of heart-stimulating exercise.
Shanks, Pete. Human Genetic Engineering: a Guide for Activists, Skeptics, and the Very Perplexed. 2005. A highly readable and entertaining guide. It explains in accessible language for a popular audience the essential questions that will arise in the future debates: What is human GE? Will it work? What perspectives should we remember? Who is doing what, and why?
Weil, Andrew. Healthy Aging: a Lifelong Guide to Your Physical and Spiritual Well-Being. 2005. Keeping mind and body in good working order is explored through biogerontology (the biology of aging) as well as the secrets of healthy longevity - diet, activity and attitude.
Additional authors of interest: Deepak Chopra, Ken Dychtwald, Ray Kurzweil, Robert Levine and Sherwin Nuland.
DVDs
Dr. Andrew Weil’s Healthy Aging. 2006. Uplifting advice emphasizes the rewards of growing older and offers practical steps for remaining healthy in mind and spirit so we can enjoy it.
ARTICLES (available in InfoTrac OneFile)
Hughes, Kerry. “A cornucopia of anti-aging nutritionals: with age, the body's protection against internal and external stressors begins to break down slowly. Scientific evidence suggests restricting caloric intake will increase longevity, but even more can be accomplished with functional ingredients.” Prepared Foods (June 2006): pNS9 (4).
A strategy, backed by significant scientific support and shown to increase longevity, is simple caloric restriction.
“Biotech’s diet in a bottle could extend your life.” Business Week (March 20, 2006): p72. 
Cutting a mouse's daily calorie intake by 30% increases its life 30% longer than its normal two-year life span. It’s believed the same reduction might extend life in humans.
“How to live for ever; Ageing. (Can science help us delay death?)” The Economist (US) (Feb 25, 2006): p84US.
It appears that death can be postponed by various means and healthy ageing extended by others.
“Linking Genes to Longevity.” Genomics and Proteomics (Sept 1, 2005): p11.
Research on the SIR2 gene and its implication to longevity is explored.
Hooper, Joseph. "The prophet of immortality: controversial theorist Aubrey de Grey insists that we are within reach of an engineered cure for aging." Popular Science 266.1 (Jan 1, 2005): 70.
WEBSITES
Unraveling the Secrets of Longevity
Scientific studies to understand the mechanism of aging and longevity in order to extend a healthy and productive life span.
International Longevity Center USA
A center for policy, research and education on population aging.
American Academy of Anti-aging Medicine
Latest medical and bio-tech news.
Kurzweil AI.net
Features the big thoughts of today's big thinkers examining the confluence of accelerating revolutions that are shaping our future world.
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